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    Children's mental health and well-being has benefited from eased COVID restrictions that allow for greater outdoor activities. However, the pandemic has caused profound psychological distress for many adults who have experienced job and business losses, illness, and death of loved ones. Psychiatrists in the US have now classified prolonged grief as prolonged grief disorder based on studies of persistent difficulties associated with grief. The pandemic has also increased mental distress in the Philippines, with estimates that 3.6 to 4.5 million Filipinos have experienced depression or other issues. While dealing with mental health is personal, the government can provide support through programs established in laws like the Mental Health Act to help those suffering from mental distress during the pandemic.

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    Children's mental health and well-being has benefited from eased COVID restrictions that allow for greater outdoor activities. However, the pandemic has caused profound psychological distress for many adults who have experienced job and business losses, illness, and death of loved ones. Psychiatrists in the US have now classified prolonged grief as prolonged grief disorder based on studies of persistent difficulties associated with grief. The pandemic has also increased mental distress in the Philippines, with estimates that 3.6 to 4.5 million Filipinos have experienced depression or other issues. While dealing with mental health is personal, the government can provide support through programs established in laws like the Mental Health Act to help those suffering from mental distress during the pandemic.

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    Children's mental health and well-being has benefited from eased COVID restrictions that allow for greater outdoor activities. However, the pandemic has caused profound psychological distress for many adults who have experienced job and business losses, illness, and death of loved ones. Psychiatrists in the US have now classified prolonged grief as prolonged grief disorder based on studies of persistent difficulties associated with grief. The pandemic has also increased mental distress in the Philippines, with estimates that 3.6 to 4.5 million Filipinos have experienced depression or other issues. While dealing with mental health is personal, the government can provide support through programs established in laws like the Mental Health Act to help those suffering from mental distress during the pandemic.

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    Czarina A.

    Negro
    Grade 11- A. Mabini

    COVID restrictions are being eased and livelihoods are slowly being revived as infections go down in
    the country. Yesterday, several cinemas reopened in Metro Manila. Children can again enjoy the
    outdoors, and schools at all levels are being readied for pilot runs of face-to-face classes.

    Child welfare advocates say allowing greater mobility for minors is good not only for their physical well-
    being but also for their mental health. Children are typically highly resilient and can quickly bounce back
    from pandemic-induced cabin fever.

    What might be more complicated to deal with is adult anxiety arising from the pandemic. The loss of
    jobs, shutdown of businesses, illness and, most seriously, the death of loved ones and friends are
    causing profound psychological distress, with several cases lasting longer than usual, according to
    mental health advocates.

    After consultations and a two-year review of the studies on persistent difficulties associated with grief,
    psychiatrists in the United States have described chronic or complicated bereavement as prolonged
    grief disorder. PGD has been added to the afflictions listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
    Mental Disorders.

    The pandemic has swollen the ranks of those suffering from mental distress even in the Philippines.
    Some psychiatrists refer to it as collective anxiety. The Department of Health estimates that amid the
    pandemic, at least 3.6 million Filipinos have grappled with depression and other mental health issues;
    the World Health Organization places the number at a higher 4.5 million.

    While dealing with mental health issues is a deeply personal process, the government can provide
    support to enhance the healing. Republic Act 11036, the Mental Health Act, was signed in 2018, and
    the implementing rules and regulations passed the following year. The law provides mechanisms for
    assisting those suffering from mental distress. In the pandemic, this aspect of public health needs as
    much attention as physical and economic health.

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